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Detailed description :Visual essays

The Imaginary Louvre

Director(s): Alain Fleischer

Filmmaker Alain Fleischer and poet Yves Bonnefoy join forces in celebration of the Louvre palace and museum. A very mobile camera explores the staircase of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo, the medieval fortress and the Mona Lisa, the Grande Galerie and the Egyptian antiquities, the Khorsabad bulls and Poussin's Four Seasons… A cinematographic "duet" in which the filmmaker's vision is complemented by the poet's words.

Genre

Visual essay

Copyright

1993

Length

Two cuts, 86 and 60 minutes

Producer(s)

Serge Lalou, Les Films d’Ici ; Pierre Coural, Musée du Louvre

Co-producer(s)

Réunion des musées nationaux, France 2, Fuji Télévision, Rai 1

Commercial distribution

Europe Images International

Non-commercial distribution

Ministère des Affaires étrangères – Cultures France